So I'm moving to California in exactly one month to attend a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program. Since I was like 15-16, it has been my dream to become a psychologist and now I'm finally about to start the program that will allow me to do this. This is a really big deal for me, so I'm really excited about it!
Well, time goes by, I get an apartment, I take care of all the paperwork I need to do. And now all I need to do is apply for a student loan so I can pay my tuition. So no bill arrives. But I get an email last week on Friday from the director of admissions telling me tuition is due 8/6. I write him back to say that I never got a bill and I don't know what to do since loans obviously take time to process.
Don't hear back from him. So today I emailed the financial aid department and the bursar. According to Financial Aid they never got my FAFSA or Financial Aid Application. Ok...WTef? So I send that along. Then I get a call back from the director of the bursar's office. Apparently I'm not a registered student. Or even an admitted student according to their information.
REALLY!?!?!?!?
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So I explain to her that I've been getting all the mailings about everything (welcome packet w/ my letter, stuff about housing, emails about orientation, etc.) and she says 'do you have a password to the school's student website?' No. 'do you have a schedule?' No. I have nothing. And apparently I'm not in their ******* system.
But they cashed my check (which I have a copy of that I emailed them, thank god for internet banking), and the director of admissions knows who I am and knows I'm an accepted student.
So the woman from the bursar's office says to me, 'This is really worrying me, I'm going to start making phone calls and you email me things as I email you about them.' So now the bursar and I are trying to figure out what the hell is going on while I dig through my emails and forward her all the info that I've been told that she claims she has no idea what I'm talking about.
I think I'm going to die. Really?! After everything I've been through to get into this program (mentally/emotionally (I can't even put into words all the **** I've gone through to get to this point), financially, I mean, hell, I am moving across the country with my husband for this!) and now this is happening?! I don't know whether to cry, throw up, or jump off the roof.
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